José Ângelo Cottinelli Telmo

José Ângelo Cottinelli Telmo (1897-1948) was a Portuguese architect, filmmaker, poet, artist, and musician. He believed that architecture was not based on a single discipline, but on the unification of various artistic disciplines. He was initially an adherent of modernism in architecture but later followed the neoclassical style favoured by the authoritarian government. A supporter of the Estado Novo regime, he had the trust of the Minister of Works, Duarte Pacheco, and was made responsible for several major projects, notably the overall design and most visible building for the Portuguese World Exhibition, and the planning for the expansion of the University of Coimbra in 1943. He also designed the construction project for the regime’s Tarrafal concentration camp on the island of Santiago in Cape Verde.